Social Media Help Nepal

 

Several social media networks and mobile applications have come up with ‘safety features’ that could help one locate friends and loved ones. 

Facebook’s Safety Check invites users to “mark themselves safe” if they are in the earthquake affected areas. Users can also check whether their friends are currently in the affected areas and if they have marked themselves safe. 

Google too has activated their Person Finder tool that was launched in the aftermath of the 2011 Haiti earthquake.It is an open source API that lets people create a ‘record’ of themselves. 

Viber has announced that they would be switching off Out Billing for Nepal users. Viber -" In response to the earthquake in Nepal we have switched off Viber Out billing so Nepal users can call any destination for free"